Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] show compiled in options in virsh --version

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:00:45PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote: > To ease debugging this trivial patch allows to find what was compiled > in in the local version of libvirt, this doesn't work for remote access > but that's probably sufficient. With the patch I get on my machine: > > paphio:~/libvirt/tools -> ./virsh --version > Virsh command line tool of libvirt 0.8.4 > See web site at http://libvirt.org/ > > Compiled with support for: > Hypervisors: Xen QEmu/KVM UML OpenVZ LXC ESX PHYP Test > Networking: Remote Daemon Network Bridging Netcf Nwfilter > Storage: Dir Disk Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM > Miscellaneous: SELinux Secrets Debug Readline > paphio:~/libvirt/tools -> > > instead of just "0.8.4" Hmm, if any script is running the current 'virsh --version' command to get the version number then this will break their usage. I think we should require a different and/or extra flag to print the extended data. --version is not a great place since this isn't really version information.

Apache uses -v for plain version number, and -V for version number plus build options/info